Context, Truth and Objectivity - Essays on Radical Contextualism

This book presents the central issues provoked by the radical contextualist position according to which there is an insurmountable gap between meaning and saying. The essays in this volume set these debates in a wider context, and present the fundamental motivations and implications of radical contextualism.

List of contents

1. Introduction
David Zapero


2. What is a Statement?
Jocelyn Benoist


3. Ordinary Language Philosophy Needs Situation Semantics (or Why Grice Needs Austin)
Krista Lawlor


4. Beyond Unnatural Doubts: Lessons from Wittgenstein
Michael Williams


5. Meaning and Ostension: from Putnam Semantics to Contextualism
François Recanati


6. The Role of Intention in Truth
Eduardo Marchesan


7. Is Seeing Judging? Radical Contextualism and the Problem of Perception
Sofia Miguens


8. Externalism and Context-Sensitivity
David Zapero


9. Contextualism and the Twilight of Representationalism
Avner Baz


10. Their Work and Why They Do It

Charles Travis

About the author

Eduardo Marchesan is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of São Paulo. His main research interests are in the fields of philosophy of language and linguistics. He has published various articles in both these fields.


David Zapero is a Research Fellow of the Thyssen Foundation at the Philosophy Department of the University of Bonn. His interests lie in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language and moral psychology. His publications include various articles in these fields and a forthcoming book entitled La forme de la règle (2018).

Summary

This book presents the central issues provoked by the radical contextualist position according to which there is an insurmountable gap between meaning and saying. The essays in this volume set these debates in a wider context, and present the fundamental motivations and implications of radical contextualism.

Product details

• Authors: Eduardo (University of Porto Marchesan, Eduardo Zapero Marchesan
• Assisted by: Eduardo Marchesan (Editor), Eduardo (University of Porto Marchesan (Editor), David Zapero (Editor), David (University of Bonn Zapero (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138094086
• ISBN: 978-1-138-09408-6
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy; Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc